![]() ![]() The Sorcerer’s Stone has the power to turn things to gold and to give immortality to humans. Everyone in the wizard world knows more about Harry’s family and his story than he does, so a great deal of the book is about Harry growing into his heritage.īy far the most important happening of Harry’s first year is unraveling the mystery of the Sorcerer’s Stone and coming face to face with Voldemort. Harry’s life as a Hogwarts “first-year” is more interesting than that of most attendees, because he is already famous for surviving the attack of the evil Lord Voldemort, who tried to kill him as an infant. ![]() Among Harry’s first-year adventures are making new friends (Hagrid, Ron and Hermione), standing up to the torments of school bully Draco Malfoy, and becoming the star player on his Quidditch team (the favored sport in the magical world). After being raised in the miserably unfair home of his Uncle Vernon Dursley, Harry practically begins life anew when he discovers that he is a wizard and is invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Barry’s hand, demons are the life moments that haunt you, form you, and stay with you: your worst boyfriend kickball games on a warm summer night watching your baby brother dance the smell of various houses in the neighborhood you grew up in or the day you realize your childhood is long behind you and you are officially a teenager.Īs a cartoonist, Lynda Barry has the innate ability to zero in on the essence of truth, a magical quality that has made her book One! Hundred! Demons! an enduring classic of the early twenty-first century. Inspired by a sixteenth-century Zen monk’s painting of a hundred demons chasing each other across a long scroll, acclaimed cartoonist Lynda Barry confronts various demons from her life in seventeen full-color vignettes. ![]() “You’ll wonder how anything can be so sad and so funny at the same time.” -Lev Grossman, Time ![]() ![]() ![]() State Department are shifted to other areas because their correct predictions of the events in China are viewed as a failure to stand up against the Communists.ġ954. What we might today call “Communophobia” becomes the core of American foreign policy. ![]() There is recrimination over “Who lost China?” McCarthyism emerges. In Halberstam’s telling, this sends shock waves through the American political system. His speech draws angry rebukes from many American foreign policy leaders.)ġ949. Kennedy, who also is hostile to French colonialism, gives a speech criticizing the French in North Africa. President Harry Truman’s State Department is more sympathetic to the French. Roosevelt had been averse to French colonialism, but he dies in April of 1945. France re-establishes its colonial rule over Indochina (Vietnam), but many Vietnamese people want independence, and war ultimately breaks out. ![]() As Halberstam does in his book, 2 it will be useful here to sketch a timeline of the Vietnam War.ġ945. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, after reading this story now, I have some excuse: this prequel short story is best read and enjoyed if you have already followed Eugenides (the Queen's Thief of Eddis) in his novel adventures. It's strange that I would come across this short story because, years and years ago, I actually read Disney Adventures (the monthly magazine in which this short story was first published) quite often - but, if I did read this story back then, I sadly don't remember it. (Note: Here there be SPOILERS for the novels themselves, so read with caution if you have yet to read said novels for yourself.) I've never written a proper review for any of the Queen's Thief books I have read (even though I love them so, however much portions of the story make my heart ache), but seeing and reading this short story inspired me a bit to give some of my impressions of this story and the main character, Eugenides. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pearson's combination of intrigue, suspense, romance, and action makes this a riveting YA page-turner for teens. ![]() ![]() New York Times-bestselling author Mary E. In this heart-stopping conclusion to the Remnant Chronicles trilogy that started with The Kiss of Deception and The Heart of Betrayal, traitors must be rooted out, sacrifices must be made, and impossible odds must be overcome as the future of every kingdom hangs in the balance. While she struggles to reach Morrighan and warn them, she finds herself at cross-purposes with Rafe and suspicious of Kaden, who has hunted her down. With war on the horizon, Lia has no choice but to assume her role as First Daughter, as soldier-as leader. Lia has survived Venda-but so has a great evil bent on the destruction of Morrighan. The third and final book in the New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles. ![]() ![]() ![]() All these activities are usually associated with happiness, thus conveying a cheerful/pleasing mood and tone. There is also a part of the scene in which Ichabod, the protagonist, is showed whistling and trotting cheerfully across the rolling green hills towards the town (Disney). The townspeople in this part of the film seem to be super cheerful and happy, as they are all smiling, and singing (Disney). In contrast, the Disney film starts out with a super cheerful musical, that conveys a pleasing mood and tone. In this sentence, Irving describes how the town is haunted by a ghost, which is very creepy, and gloomy. Irving says, “The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region” (Irving 3). As for the mood in this section, it is very gloomy, however, because it talks about ghosts and spirits that haunt the land. The usage of words like “drowsy” and “dreamy” help convey a poetic tone throughout the section. In the original short story the author expresses a very poetic and sincere tone, for example, Irving states “A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere” (Irving 3). The author/ director’s goal in the first part of any story is to establish a setting and introduce characters, which both versions do very well. In the opening scene of both versions, there is a difference in mood and tone. ![]() ![]() Some have said they like this better then the first book. I WOKE IN A DARK PLACE This is a popular series about a likeable character. You will learn more about the different flavors of werewolf than you ever thought you wanted to know, and how they kill their prey (warning: not for the squeamish!) I'm going to download the rest of the Dresden series because I just have to know what happens next to Harry and how he'll get out of it! Fool Moon (nice pun, BTW) is about Harry's search to discover the source of a recent spate of killings, presumably by a werewolf. Although there is still some hackneyed detective-genre prose to make me cringe at times, I am won over by Jim Butcher's talent for painting these characters, creating an intriguing paranormal universe, and some twisty-turny storylines that keep you guessing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I found the writing style of this second Dresden book to be decidedly improved from the first (Storm Front). Harry Dresden, a wizard/detective in Chicago, is a very quirky, compelling main character who gets himself in one unbelievable predicament after another. I was looking for another engaging series to try after reading all of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse books and found Jim Butcher's books. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL15144220W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.72 Pages 392 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0679504664 The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (The Civil War: 1861-1865 Book 2) Michael Shaara 8,187 Kindle Edition 7.99 This item: The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure) Jeff Shaara 1,111 Kindle Edition 19. ![]() About The Killer Angels After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels, remains as vivid and powerful as the day it. OL24211742M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work The Killer Angels is unique, sweeping, unforgettablea dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America’s destiny. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:15:26 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA110121 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donor ![]() ![]() The all-black school she went to as a young girl she writes of as being ‘a place of ecstasy – pleasure and danger’. Her early schooling she describes as ‘sheer joy’. ![]() She came from a poor working class family and worked her way up the academic ladder to become Distinguished Professor of English at City College in New York. (hooks 2003 p.xiv)īell hooks (1952- ) (nee Gloria Watkins) was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. ![]() As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know. Educating is always a vocation rooted in hopefulness. ![]() My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Barry Burke assesses the contribution that bell hooks has made to thinking about education and sets this within the context of her biography and work. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's me falling in love with some characters I've never touched. It's some characters I've written before, with the volume turned up. ![]() It's big ideas, politics, fights and fashion, lies, creation and destruction, all told across the widest possible canvas, in time and space. It's about a group of people, some of whom are convinced they're in the West Wing, some who have designs to be in House of Cards and at least one who knows they're in Veep. This is the book about Krakoa, and the Quiet Council, with all its muffled screams. "To speak in a Hickmanian idiom, this is the New Avengers to Gerry 's Avengers. “So, the match is lit, and IMMORTAL X-MEN is a book about the burning," GIllen teased in a press release. The Trial of Magneto's Lucas Werneck will draw the series.Įchoing his previous House of X and Inferno teasers, cover artist Mark Brooks has crafted a very sobering montage for the series, hinting at deep divides within the Council and potentially a major mutant death:Īrt by Mark Brooks. ![]() This new series is billed as a companion to the flagship X-Men title, one focused on the deepening power struggles within Krakoa's Quiet Council. Immortal X-Men marks former Uncanny X-Men writer Kieron Gillen's return to the franchise for the first time in ten years. ![]() |